Fighting a Ghost

Kaelia

The grandfather clock in the hallway chimed four, its sound hollow and heavy, almost like a warning ringing through the empty house. Four in the morning. And just twenty hours left.

Twenty hours before Ivan Sokolov’s patience snapped.

Twenty hours before everything we’d built, everything we thought we knew, could go up in flames.

I stood at the window in Valen’s study, ignoring Enzo’s warni